I went to Printing Show—TKY at Aperture Gallery last Friday afternoon in order to do a feature for DART. Deep into the process of streamlining my library, I had no intention of participating in the creation of another book, but after about fifteen minutes observing the high energy, highly focused work going on, I caved in and bought one of the three remaining tickets, … Read the full Story >>
New Sculpture by Richard Van Buren. Left: Olongapo (2011). Right: Rogue Bluffs (2010). Courtesy Gary Snyder Gallery. Wednesday, November 9 Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Liliana Porter | Recent Work. Hosfelt Gallery, 531 West 36th Street, NY, NY. Book signing, 6-8 pm: Marisa Berenson | A Life in Pictures (Rizzoli). Clic Gallery, 255 Centre Street, NY, NY. Information. Benefit auction, 6:30 pm: Slideluck … Read the full Story >>
Among the exhibitors at the recent WPPI show in Las Vegas was Berlin-based WhiteWall.com, which impressed the PPD staff with its printing and framing service. The website allows users to create customized prints in a variety of formats without downloading additional software. There are also a ton of finishing and framing options. (You’ll love using the Configurator.) As one reviewer noted, it’s like having German engineering on your wall. Go here for other WPPI finds. Read the full Story >>
In accepting The ICP 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award, Daido Moriyama said, through a translator, My life in photography has been one long road over a hill. These humble words reverberate like a stone dropped into still water, a thought shared, perhaps, by all who have taken art-making as their life’s work. Moriyama’s photography work, which he began making in post World War II Japan, offers a harsh, … Read the full Story >>
Looking at contact prints from thousands of 35mm black-and-white images by a single photographer might seem like a daunting prospect. But when I finally dove into Daido Moriyama’s Labyrinth (Akio Nagasawa Publishing/Aperture 2012), I was hooked. The book is a collection of images made by the renowned Japanese photographer from the 1950s onward and rearranged by him to create new visual dialogues. He has selected negative … Read the full Story >>
Two items from the Camera Club of New York benefit auction, left: Alison Davies, Untitled (Outerland), 2001. Right: Martine Fougeron, Sleepover: Les Crepes, 2008. Copyright the photographers, courtesy CCNY. Information. Tuesday, November 1 Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Peter Hujar | Influential Friends. John McWhinnie @ Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 50 1/2 East 64th Street, NY, NY. Wednesday, November 2 Opening reception and … Read the full Story >>
Above: From Another Country in New York. © Daido Moriyama, courtesy Galerie Alex Daniels/Reflex Amsterdam. 2012 can be called the “Year of Daido Moriyama,” starting with the ICP Infinity Award for Lifetime Achievement, in May. Even before that, the energy began to gather with the presentation by Ivan Vartanian from Goliga Books of Printing Show—TKY at Aperture Gallery on the weekend of November 4, 2011. … Read the full Story >>
A new exhibition that poses the question: What is the fate of ink on paper in the digital age has just opened at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons The New School for Design. For all who have been involved in the accelerating shift from traditional offset printing to digital, in all of its levels and iterations, this show is a must. … Read the full Story >>
For artists and illustrators spending too much time in their studios, Pratt Institute's third annual Big Damn Prints event might be the way to creatively blow off steam. Over 40 artists and professors from Pratt's printmaking department will create more than 40 woodblock prints measuring 4 x 8 feet each. The blocks, which are too big for any local printing press, will be proofed … Read the full Story >>
The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is a great destination for holiday museum hopping on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Currently on view through mid-January is How Posters Work, which explores the ways designers see--and produce--the medium beloved by graphic designers inventing and sharing new visual languages. Organized by Ellen Lupton, the museum's senior curator of contemporary design, the show features more than 125 … Read the full Story >>
Elastic director Patrick Clair, who recently won an Emmy for the title design of Amazon’s The Man in The High Castle, invokes “a touch of future-tech terror pushing 3D printing into beautiful and ominous new territory” in the titles for HBO’s remarkable new series Westworld, notes Stash. The titles evoke the themes of the show about human-like robots with a monochromatic, sterile rendering of their construction, adds the Wrap, which talks with Clair about the making of the titles. Read the full Story >>
When photographer Garry Winogrand died in 1984, he left behind more than 2,500 rolls—some 100,000 frames—of undeveloped film. John Szarkowski, the famed MoMA curator who was Winogrand’s great champion, developed the film but dismissed the images as “unfinished work.” Now the first major Winogrand exhibition since 1998—organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and on view at New York’s Metropolitan Museum through September 21—takes another, more admiring look at Winogrand’s posthumously processed images. As the New York Times explains, the show raises age-old questions about whether photographic authorship lies in the snapping of the shutter or the later editing and printing of work. Read the full Story >>
The exhibition of Walker Evans photographs at the UBS Gallery offers an intriguing opportunity to appreciate the evolution of photographic printmaking, using the work of a great master as the testing ground.Curated by John T. Hill and Sven Martson for the Yale University School of Art, the show explores a definitive two-year period in Walker Evan's career and a significant moment in American history. … Read the full Story >>
The Camera Club of New York celebrates its 125th anniversary with First Impression, an exhibition of contemporary work by artists employing traditional and arcane methods to create unique images. The show was curated by Michael Mazzeo and the featured artists are Marcel Breuer, Eric William Carroll, Dan Estabrook, Michael Floman, Michelle Kloehn, and Chris McCaw. This small exhibition is an excellent introduction to … Read the full Story >>
Book Arts. Art of the Book. Artist’s Books. Printmaking. Book Binding. Paper Arts. These are just a few of the terms that come into play in the subject at hand, and one of the reasons that [I’ll stick with] Book Arts is, perhaps the ultimate interdisciplinary art of our time. The Center for Book Arts, located in New York City’s Flatiron District, is a leader in … Read the full Story >>
For anyone who loves printmaking and fine art papermaking, this week's Fashion District Arts Festival offers outstanding opportunities to literally get your hands wet - and dirty. The festival, now in its fourth year, is organized by the Fashion Center Business District to bring visibility to the many arts and performance organizations, as well as individual artists, who are located in the garment district. … Read the full Story >>
Contemporary artist books are on view in an exhibition of 70 books made during the past 15 years by artists working in France, at the Grolier Club, on New York's Upper East Side, organized by the Koopman Collection at the National Library of the Netherlands. The exhibition presents the art of the book as a seemingly endless variety of mediums and methods, printing and binding crafts, … Read the full Story >>
Launched by artist-activist Mirko Ilic, The Tolerance Project seeks to raise awareness of intolerance and to foster positive change among people everywhere. Cooper Union is now showcasing a selection of posters by contributing artists from around the globe in the colonnade windows of Cooper’s Foundation Building. Mirko joined me this week for a conversation about this ongoing project that so far has placed 130 shows … Read the full Story >>
Ward Schumaker, a San Francisco-based artist known for the iconic illustrations he's created for books and magazines, has recently been making one-of-a-kind hand painted books. Encouraged by his wife, artist Vivienne Flesher, he has devoted much of his time over the last five years to this pursuit. In an email interview, Ward talked about the art and process of making books - and … Read the full Story >>
You can't go to school for illustration in Argentina, but you can go to Universidad de Palermo (UP) in Buenos Aires this month and check out the American Illustration 25th Anniversary Timeline Exhibition. I'm from Argentina, and I'm all too aware of how little access people there have to the world of illustrated magazines, ad campaigns, graphic design that exists here in North … Read the full Story >>
